Poll about users' most preferred desktop (was "GNOME and KDE users")

[Sven Langkamp]

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 12:44 PM, Boudewijn Rempt <boud at valdyas.org> wrote:

> On Wednesday 29 June 2011 Jun, silvio grosso wrote:
> > Hi everyone,
> >
> > In the future, on the  Krita's web-page, it might be interesting to have
> a poll about the most preferred Linux Graphical Deskop for running Krita.
> > Naturally, with NO intention to start a flame among users :-)
> >
> > I am thinking about something like that:
> > - What Linux distribution do you use for running Krita?
> > - Which Graphical Desktop have you picked (Gnome, Kde, Unity, Xfce etc)?
>
>
> It could be a really interesting survey indeed. I'm not sure we've got
> software for that on the website, but I think I saw some "poll module" --
> bugsbane will now, of course. My gut feeling is that many users indeed use
> Krita on Gnome.
>

You can safely assume that most users use Gnome because Ubuntu uses Gnome.
If there was a windows version though, most users would be using that.


> > Maybe many  users prefer to use Gnome instead of  Kde because they come
> from Windows.
> > On Windows, very likely, they have tried at least Gimp.
> > When they try Linux for the first time often these new users start with
> Ubuntu (or something "similar" e.g. Mint).
> > Since Ubuntu, in the past,  was based primarily on Gnome this might
> explain their "choice".
> > As of now, with Unity on Ubuntu Natty everything has changed...
> >
> > BTW, It looks like most of the principal graphical applications for
> handling pictures have been written using Gtk.
> > For instance: Gimp, Hugin, RawTherapee, CinePaint and so forth.
> > Hence the outcome for both artists and users to "enjoy" more the Gnome
> desktop.
> >
> > Perhaps, *but* this is a wild guess, it might be they feel more at home
> on Gnome :-)
>
> I think it's mostly historical reasons... Cinepaint is of course a Gimp
> fork, and Gimp is where GTK came from.
>

There was some time where Cinepaint wanted to switch to FLTK, but that was
before it disappeared.

Most of the open source graphical applications are written in GTK, but not
if you also look at the commercial ones.

There are some of the most high-end applications in the movie industry based
on Qt like Maya or Nuke. Most of the movie studios will be using Qt in some
way like Dreamworks and Disney.
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